Zoe Whittall

ZOE WHITTALL is the author of the short story collection Wild Failure , and five bestselling novels includ-ing The Fake, The Spectacular , The Best Kind of People , Holding Still for as Long as Possible, and Bottle Rocket Hearts . Her previous poetry collec-tions include Pre-cordial Thump , The Emily Valentine Poems , and The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life . Her work has won a Lambda Literary Award, the Writers' Trust Dayne Ogilvie Award, and been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize....See more

ZOE WHITTALL is the author of the short story collection Wild Failure , and five bestselling novels includ-ing The Fake, The Spectacular , The Best Kind of People , Holding Still for as Long as Possible, and Bottle Rocket Hearts . Her previous poetry collec-tions include Pre-cordial Thump , The Emily Valentine Poems , and The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life . Her work has won a Lambda Literary Award, the Writers' Trust Dayne Ogilvie Award, and been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has worked as a TV writer on the Emmy-Award winning comedy show Schitt's Creek and The Baroness Von Sketch Show for which she won a 2018 Canadian Screen Award. She was born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and now lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario. See less